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This started life in late 2008, intended as a painting to be a birthday present, but only taken as far as inks and blocking colours on computer. The catalyst was a pun, but being me, I had to try to take it beyond… well, um, beyond usefulness. So I got a friend to translate the pun into Japanese text (thanks Emily!). Being embarrassingly monolingual I trust she isn’t deceiving me and hasn’t given me a highly offensive insult instead.

Unfortunately I had to put it on hold, probably due to moving, and I’ve not had studio space to break out the alkyds and get a proper painting done since. I can’t remember what I gave as a present instead, probably a kinder egg.

Having stumbled across the inks again yesterday I was inspired to try knocking up the colours using Artrage – a paint simulation program that I got with a wacom tablet and had been meaning to try out for a while.